About us

We independently fund and support promising research in areas of great clinical need but where there is low investment, creating the conditions required to take the improvement of human health to new and exciting frontiers.

Professor Daniel Altmann

Trustee

Danny was appointed as a trustee of the Medical Research Foundation in April 2014.

Danny Altmann is an active research scientist. He has run a lab at the Hammersmith Hospital Campus of Imperial College since moving to the site for the opening of the Medical Research Council’s Clinical Sciences Centre in 1994.

His main research interests are the study of adaptive immunity in human disease including severe bacterial infection and autoimmune disease, such as multiple sclerosis. Danny took two and a half years out of bench research from 2011 to work with the Welcome Trust on strategy for biomedical research funding initiatives in infection, immunity and population health. He is Editor-in-Chief of ‘Immunology’ and Associate Editor of ‘Vaccine’ journals.”